In 1941, Herman J. Mankiewicz won an Oscar for the screenplay of Citizen Kane. It has been explained on other occasions how he wrote it: isolated on a ranch in the middle of the Mojave Desert after suffering a serious car accident. Orson Welles, aware of the screenwriter's alcohol addiction, confined him while he was bedridden, and made him write a script that would cause a turning point in their lives and in the history of cinema.

If the news that Ok Diario had paid 242,000 euros for Koldo García's defense were not enough to make one's eyebrows arch higher than the oval of one's face, in pure exclamation, a circumstance is added that makes the affair even filthier. It turns out that the director of Eldiario.es, Ignacio Escolar, met with García's lawyer, Leticia de la Hoz, who is the one who collected the invoices on behalf of Eduardo Inda's digital outlet. The juiciest one, oh what a coincidence, coincided with the date on which the media outlet interviewed him so he could pull back the curtain and expose the miseries of the PSOE. After that meeting, a burly man approached Escolar to tell him that he had been taking pictures of him on the orders of the director of Ok Diario. A few minutes later, his mobile phone vibrated. It was Inda, with a message as brief as it was disturbing: “Ho, ho”. A while later, the photos appeared published and it was said that Eldiario.es was making things up and had “falsified the concepts” of the invoices.

Netflix has released a three-part documentary that aims to be a posthumous portrait of the actor Matthew Perry, known essentially for his role as Chandler Bing in the series Friends. Perry passed away three years ago, after a long history of addiction to alcohol and opioids.

There was expectation for Óscar Puente's appearance, to see if his resignation would occur, and the newspapers that wanted to see this fuse blow were trying to exert pressure from their front pages, while those closest to the PSOE continued to deepen the line of human error. "The Atocha controllers confused the protocol," they wrote in El País. On the other hand, in Abc the headline was: "Puente fired technicians and filled Adif's leadership with politicians". They accompanied it with a second news item: "Sánchez sidelines the minister he used as a battering ram", and then said that "he was not considering dismissing him so that the wear and tear would be focused on him, 'very affected emotionally'", with the use of cowardly quotation marks, which avoid indicating who is making that quote assessing the socialist's intimate state. The right-wing newspapers know that Puente, who had been mentioned as a successor to Sánchez, is now only a shadow: the lightning rod that, precariously, prevents electricity from being transmitted to the Spanish president. In fact, in the editorial that Abc published on Friday (therefore, before the appearance), they were not satisfied with the hypothetical resignation of Puente: "Responsibility cannot stop at an inept minister. It also reaches the president who appointed him, kept him in office and supported his management". In any case, the triple media right does not agree, because while here they suggest that he would like to leave and they won't let him, in El Mundo the headline suggested the opposite and a desire to cling to the armchair: "Puente's continuity divides the PSOE, while he buys time".

Horror does not always need a monster hiding in the dark. Sometimes an apparently normal house, a gated community, or a family carrying secrets is enough. Over the decades, series have explored these possibilities and turned fear into a resource to talk about both what we do not know and what is too familiar to us. The genre has gone through ghost stories, alien invasions, killers, and supernatural creatures, but it has also found new ways to unsettle the viewer in trauma, grief, and social violence.

Broadly speaking, railway safety rests on three technical layers that are often confused: blocking, interlocking, and protection. After the accident in Urda, Toledo, it is worth explaining them.

“They have killed us.” This is how the statement from Novaya Gazeta, the last opposition newspaper still operating within Russia, begins, announcing the end of its activity due to persecution by the authorities. In the last few hours, the workers have been evicted from their headquarters in the center of Moscow and all their sources of funding have been cut off. That is why the editorial team, fearing that the repression would intensify even further, has explained that they have no choice but to shut down permanently on November 9, after thirty-three years in operation.

Aiman, ten years old, trusts InfoK. He never misses a broadcast day. He does not trust social networks or other portals, he says there is a lot of fake news and that only when the children's news program reports the news, he is satisfied. He is in the best hands. After 25 years of the program, its presenter since 2020, Núria Vilanova, confesses that the trust of the young viewers is the best gift they can send her. “You have given me goosebumps, Aiman. These words give meaning to our work,” gestures the presenter as she gives him a hug. Aiman and two hundred boys and girls had the opportunity to meet the host and her youngest reporter, Alaaddine Azzouzi, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where the educational center and the public television celebrated a congress about the more than 4,300 programs of InfoK.

Sir Patrick Stewart, a giant of modern theater and cinema, has died at 86, according to his spokesperson, Kelly Bush Novak. The actor passed away Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles after a "brief and difficult struggle with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia." Stewart, forged in London theater, brought a Shakespearean touch to two major fantasy film franchises: Star Trek, where he played Captain Picard in series and films, and the X-Men saga, where he was Professor Charles Xavier, a role he reprised last year while filming the new installment of The Avengers: Doomsday, yet to be released.

On television, the first hours of a tragedy are usually the most cautious. These are moments when one must strike a balance because the urgency to know inevitably contrasts with the slowness of the rescue and the gathering of data.

After a very intense October regarding series, November arrives more moderate, although also with some notable titles. Among the proposals that attract the most attention is the premiere, after years of waiting, of the series from the Blade runner universe. And although we have not included it in the list, the second part of the second season of Rivals.

The Internet is the great steam engine of our times, which demands giant shovelfuls of coal to keep the information wheel turning. At times when a single event dominates the news, the chances of ending up throwing an incombustible rock that sparks into the boiler skyrocket. That is what happened to the magazine Hola!, whose courtly obsession played a bad trick on it when it wrote the following news item: "Infanta Elena was traveling on a train, but not on one of those involved in the accident." Not even Ada Colau would have had an attention-seeking attack like that. The publication ended up deleting the tweet with which it promoted the article and changed the headline to "Alarm for Infanta Elena after the Toledo train accident: her train was not the one involved," which remained absurd enough because it turns out that the King's sister was not even taking the same route where the disaster occurred, but was heading towards Albacete. "Infanta Elena is fine, but shocked by the tragedy," they wrote, once again placing her under the spotlight in an inexplicable way.

In the face of a catastrophe, there used to be a twenty-four-hour grace period during which the news narrative strictly revolved around what had happened, leaving the assigning of responsibilities for after the shock of deaths and injuries had been processed. This is no longer the case, and some digital media outlets were calling for the head of Transport Minister Óscar Puente a few hours after the incident. They did so using dishonorable methods. La Razón and OK Diario asked their readers via respective polls. Of course, 98% of their following demanded his resignation, when it is evident that it will not happen, even less so in the middle of an emergency situation like the current one.

"It is normal that people can say what they think." This is read on the mural that is seen behind his photo, on his WhatsApp profile. But just because it is normal does not mean it is common. Member of the group Esquirols, a priest who stopped being one for love, author of more than 350 'auques' and scholar of Verdaguer, Joan Vilamala lives up to the motto and Enderrock Llibres publishes a volume where he narrates his life, with an accent on his musical facet.

A study from Pompeu Fabra University reveals that young people can improve their Catalan thanks to short videos on TikTok and Instagram. The research analyzed the quality of short videos on social networks and surveyed 76 users aged 14 to 25. The result: 8 out of 10 Catalan speakers claim that their Catalan has improved thanks to this content.

On Tuesday night, the collaborative left-wing duo formed by Gabriel Rufián and Irene Montero visited La revuelta. The La 1 program, in which Broncano harasses his guests by asking about their sexual relations over the last month, encountered two candidates who went beyond his usual calculations and turned sex into the background noise that ran through a good part of the interview.

The people in charge of TV3 must not watch their own television on Sunday mornings. It is a time slot that has remained as a religious stronghold where some content causes astonishment. Every last Sunday of the month they broadcast Néixer de nou, a space from the Evangelical Council that explains what the country's Protestant community does. It has an initial part that is more informative and can be interesting, but, in the end, every week a different pastor appears who addresses the viewer while looking at the camera. After quoting a biblical passage, the pastor gives a sermon. These are some literal fragments of last Sunday's little sermon: “There are situations in our life, perhaps diagnoses of illness, perhaps situations in our house, our marriages, our friendships..., that can make us fall. But what is the promise that the Lord gives us? It is that, as many times as we fall, the Lord will raise us up again”. With an exhortative attitude he continues: “How do we find this strength to get back up? The answer is not in the actions that we take but in what Jesus has done for us. When you find the name of Jesus, when you open your heart to him, he fills you with hope and your base, your foundation, is completely different before knowing him”. And he continues with a messianic tone and raising his index finger: “We depend on the work of Jesus in our heart. What fills your heart? Because if what fills your heart are temporary things, things that pass, things that today you have and tomorrow you don't, when you fall maybe you don't have the strength to get up. But if you let the name of Jesus enter your heart, that his hope be your foundation, it doesn't matter how many times you fall. In the name of Jesus you will be able to get back up and you will be able to declare ‘The Lord has been my help’”. And finally he concludes: “This is my prayer for you, that in the name of Jesus you find the strength to stand tall”.

“Ecstasy of Spanish football”, says Marca on its front page, regarding the Ballon d’Or gala. “Kane wins, Spain sweeps”, seconds As, also from Madrid. On the first two pages, the word Barça appears only in the last subheading, when it explains that the blaugranes were chosen as the best women’s team. In Catalonia, of course, the approach had a very different mental framework: “Barça sweeps”, wrote Mundo Deportivo recalling the awards for Alexia Putellas, Lamine Yamal, Vicky López, Cata Coll, Pere Romeu, and the women's team. Smaller, it also recalled the triumph of the Spanish national team, for Luis de la Fuente and Unai Simón, and left the big prize of Harry Kane for the very end. In Sport, the headline was “Blaugrana Party” and all six photographs were of Barça, including a proud Joan Laporta in the last of the cards. L’esportiu, for its part, gives the lead to Putellas, above the headline “Three golds”.

The nonconformist and committed voice of Montserrat Roig resonated metaphorically among the curtains of the Saló de Cent at Barcelona City Hall during the celebration of the awards that bear her name and serve as a tribute to this fundamental writer. The deputy director of ARA, Ignasi Aragay, has been recognized with the career achievement award. The jury highlighted his profile as a “creative, discreet, well-read, and hardworking person, with a great social disposition. He is a good professional and a good person, as well as a teacher and mentor to journalists from one of the country's reference newspapers”. He received the award ex aequo with journalism professor Xavier Giró, one of the theorists of so-called peace journalism, in which aseptic neutrality is rejected.

The Telenotícies vespre on Saturday, with Joan Raventós at the helm in the absence of Raquel Sans, explained the violent disturbances that same day at Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona. When saying goodbye, the presenter addressed the audience who wished to continue staying informed: “Events that we will continue to follow, as it could not be otherwise, from the channel and the 3CatInfo application”.